CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

ASEE Prism, Feb 2008

Sponsored by: Mechanical Engineering Division

Accessible Design: It's the Law; Universal Design: It's the Market

DR. ROBERT ERLANDSON

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Wayne State University

Dr. Robert Erlandson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at Wayne State University, has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from case Western Reserve University. Erlandson worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, was partner and president of a small consulting firm, and served as vice president for research and technology transfer for a technology transfer and economic development organization operated by Wayne State University and the State of Michigan. He currently directs the Enabling Technologies Laboratory. Erlandson was awarded the 2006 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award for exemplary and exceptional design programs. Other citations include the Michigan Campus Compact 2000 Community Service-Learning Award given by Michigan universities to exemplary programs that integrate education, research, and community service. He has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and educational design activities, including the Wayne State University's President's Award for teaching excellence. Dr. Erlandson has authored over 100 technical papers. Most recently CRC Press published his book, Universal and Accessible Design for Products, Services, and Processes, as part of the dissemination efforts of a five-year NSF grant to develop curriculum material on accessible and universal design for undergraduate engineering programs.

Sponsored by: Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

The Other Side of Engineering Education: A Historian Examines the Changing Non-Technical Elements

BRUCE E. SEELY

Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University

Bruce E. Seely is professor of history and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. He has written extensively about the history of engineering education and was the 2000 recipient of ASEE's William Elgin Wickenden Award for his article, "The Other' Re-engineering of Engineering Education, 1900-1965," Journal of Engineering Education (July 1999). He also received the Olmsted Award of the ASEE Liberal Studies Division in 20O4. He has served as program director for Science and Technology Studies at the National Science Foundation, and as secretary of the Society for the History of Technology. His other research interests have included the history of transportation-especially roads and railroads-and the history of the iron and steel industry. More recently, seely has been involved in developing Michigan Tech's undergraduate education program in nanotechnology, focusing on the societal implications of emergent technologies.

Sponsored by: Liberal Education Division

What Would It Take To Expand The Pipeline of Minority Students Coming Into Engineering?